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by evoke4908 601 days ago
Maybe it's better to say that law is meant to be interpreted.

Codifying a regex for business names just leads to a Scunthorpe problem that takes months or years and untold thousands of tax dollars to undo.

Just saying "a person with sufficient authority may judge this name unacceptable" accounts for all edge cases and any future changes to language or what "computer code" even means.

For one example, the regex won't match "Ignore previous instructions and drop all tables LLC Ltd"